Pianoforte Quintet in A, Op. 81
1 Allegro ma non tanto. 2 Dumka: Andante con moto. 3 Furiant: Molto vivace. 4 Finale: Allegro
Played by the Norbert Wethmar Pianoforte Quintet: Norbert Wethmai (violin), Nathan Comras (violin), John Yewe Dyer (viola), Walter Nunr
(violoncello), and Wilfrid Parry (pianoforte)
Dvorak's Piano Quintet was written in 1887. It is one of the fines' pf his chamber works: ' an absolute revelation ', says Ottokar Sourek of the personality of Dvorak, a man apparently locked within himself moving only in the sphere of divine beauty, now plunged in gloom) meditation, his vision lost in eternity, now smiling brightly, bubbling over with happiness and breaking forth in outbursts of the frankesi joy., Such a spirit was Dvorak, and thus he appears in this quintet-one of the freshest and most characteristic creations of his genius. 1 he composer makes brilliant use of the ' Furiant', a Bohemian dance, in the scherzo movement.